mutual aid needed for Noble, a disabled artist who is recovering & rebuilding stability in their life following some serious health challenges and housing instability in recent years. they’re an amazing artist and community steward — please support them! linktr.ee/Nobleliverpool

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Sarah Grilo, Black Wall, (oil on canvas), 1967 [Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. © The Estate of Sarah Grilo, Madrid]

Jonathan Lethem writes the best review I've read of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, putting his finger squarely on why I didn't accord it masterpiece status

Centrist Dems to the progressive wing:

one of the artists who we've been working with for the first issue of Queer & Trans Collagists is looking for help with expenses related to top surgery! please help him out if you can ❤️

3 days left!!

full-length claire rousay / m. sage collaboration when clairerousay.bandcamp.com/track/just-f...

october collage

Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor' www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...

Centrist Dems to the progressive wing:

THE CHAIR COMPANY is, for my money, more successful than FRIENDSHIP because most everyone in its world is unhinged to a greater or lesser degree--it isn't just Robinson freaking out a world full of norms--and this maps onto a "paranoid thriller" template better than you might suspect

hell yeah this is sick

mods are asleep, post unholy synth patches

october collage

Set aside a chunk of time and read this thread. I've been interested in Trump's "succession problem" for a while now, and while I don't agree with everything in this thread it certainly does a much better job than I could of mapping the various forces in orbit around that problem

very glad to have a collaborative @morphicrooms.bsky.social piece (made with @jpb.bsky.social) in the recent issue of @creamcityreview.bsky.social! i received copies in the mail the other day and they’re glorious, lots to enjoy!

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

there is no possible way in my mind this isn't about a trans girl.

Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"

it's hard not to view AI tools and their marketing as being an additional facet of the Greater Suckerfication. "why do all that pesky cognitive work yourself when you could simply offload it to the Machine" is what you say when you want to scam someone out of their own intelligence

looking for a synthesizer that has this aesthetic

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Refuse to share bullshit for social points. Sharing it is free advertising.

James Murphy

Cleansing the timeline with anti-authoritarian joy

The plaintiffs have experienced violence for exercising their First Amendment rights under the constitution, Ellis says. Some have had that protected expression chilled by the violence from federal agents, Ellis says.

Ellis rules that the Trump administration impermissibly prevented the free exercise of religion, in violation of the First Amendment. Those engaged in prayer have been shot, without warning, with pepper balls and tear gas, Ellis says.

ok—morning listening—this is as good as everyone has been saying it is: rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/spectr...

I would read this subterranean horror novel

if you're ever Photoshopping your own face into the smoke of the Twin Towers, Adobe should have a pop-up that says "are you sure that whatever it is you're doing is a good idea"

had a brief urge to check whether this is part of a project wherein The Experience is churning out thousands of AI songs, each covering the news of the day from, say, 1851-present

Support trans sicko art

I love that there are multiple versions

Cheney was so evil that him dying actually lifted a curse

one must imagine Elon Musk unhappy

I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏

you love to see it

GET IN LOSERS WE'RE GETTING A DOPAMINE BOOST

If you have any interest in trans history or zines this is a must-read. Gendertrash is both vitally important and an insanely fun read. I am so excited to have a paper copy I can hold and share and loan out and not get back and buy again!

circulate the news locally network local news with news circulated more distantly we are not billionaires and we are also not nothing noticeboards neighborhood bulletins indie weeklies (do still exist) newsletter in the mail find your local copy shop get familiar with the machines bring friends

Breaking: The Darkness Returns

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

📚 39. THE CARE MANIFESTO: THE POLITICS OF INTERDEPENDENCE by the Care Collective. This book ably describes my politics in a way few others have lately, but every single page underscores how far we are from the realization of this vision (and how much ground we’ve lost since the book's publication)

for a good while mine was “Paul Newman, the baddie in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY”

oh I'm sorry, I thought this was a Great Gatsby themed party

all of this—*but also* specifically recruiting trans, queer, black, brown, and lefty voices to write for free at the very beginning only to offer “opposing voices” six-figure deals soon after? the founders repeatedly saying “free speech, nothing we can do” about literal nazis even YouTube banned??